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Count Basie / Charles Lloyd Quartet (BG-78, night 6)

BG-78 · August 20, 1967
BG-78

BG-78 · Jim Blashfield

Catalog Number
BG-78
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
Date
August 20, 1967
Poster Artists
Nickname
Count Basie / Charles Lloyd Quartet (BG-78, night 6)
Performers
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Charles Lloyd Quartet

On Sunday, August 20, 1967, the Fillmore Auditorium was in the last nights of BG-78 - Jim Blashfield's "A Week of Great Music" poster (Aug 15-21), a single sheet that carried Chuck Berry, the Charles Lloyd Quartet, the Steve Miller Band, the Young Rascals, "Hair," and Count Basie & His Orchestra across the week (poster and week span per wolfgangs, which catalogs BG-78 Aug 15-21 and credits Blashfield). The Basie and Lloyd nights fell at the week's end - a big-band jazz elder and a young modal-jazz crossover star sharing Graham's psychedelic hall (the specific per-night placement is COAU's reading; the poster gives only the week range, so treat the Basie/Lloyd-on-the-20th detail as likely rather than settled). The earlier nights of this run - Chuck Berry's - are told on the August 16-19 pages.

Verification Notes

Antagonist (2026-08-17 headless run): corroborated via check-claims on vetted tiers + adversarial live reads (wolfgangs/gdao/dead.net/setlist.fm/billgrahamfoundation/COAU-latest + Corry Arnold blogs). BG-78 'Week of Great Music' Aug 15-21, Jim Blashfield; Basie/Lloyd on Aug 20-21 per COAU (poster gives week only) - HEDGED. Earlier BG-78 nights already live (08-16..08-19).

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